Tips and Tricks

Discover the best ways to prepare a scene for production rendering with Chaos Cloud.

This video shows how to:

- Set up your scene for an initial preview by dropping the quality settings and rendering it locally

- Check the results of your locally rendered preview with a preview render on the cloud — the results should be identical

- Set up your scene for final production rendering with high-quality settings.

This video shows you the essential tips that help you to prepare your animations before sending them to Chaos Cloud to render.

The video is recorded with V-Ray Next for 3ds Max and shows how to:

- Optimize your animation scene.

- Test animation renders by rendering a number of important frames first

- Adjust settings for production rendering

- Download your files using the Command-Line Interface (CLI) download command for a fast and reliable download.

Discover how to quickly access and share your rendered files through a direct Google Drive integration.

This video shows how to:

- Setup your Google account to connect to your Chaos Cloud account

- Add render elements

- Send the scene to the Cloud

- Access the render files on your Drive

- Share them to other Google accounts

 - Manually save old projects

- Download separate render elements

This Tips and Tricks video shows how to use Chaos Cloud Rendering and V-Ray to set up and review your Render Elements.

The video is recorded with V-Ray Next for 3ds Max.

To load the scene as an EXR file, follow the steps below:

1. In the Render Settings window, from Render Elements tab, select the elements you want to submit to Chaos Cloud rendering.

2. Press Submit to Chaos Cloud rendering button, and then the Submit button in the newly opened window.

3. In the new web page that opens, you can change the render settings. Once you are ready, press the Submit button to upload the job.

4. When it is successfully scheduled for rendering, press the View Job button. A new window opens.

5. Wait for the rendering to finish and press the Download button to download your .zip scene.

6. Open the VFB in 3dsMax. Load the scene as an *.exr file.

To load the scene as an VRIMG file, follow the steps below:

1. In Render Settings window, from V-Ray tab, enable the V-Ray raw image file option.

2. Set a file path, name, and save it as a *.vrimg type.

3. Press Submit to Chaos Cloud rendering button, and then the Submit button in the newly opened window.

4.  In the new web page that opens, you can change the render settings. Once you are ready, press the Submit button to upload the job.

5. When it is successfully scheduled for rendering, press the View Job button. A new window opens.

6. Wait for the rendering to finish and press the Download button to download your .zip scene.

7. Open the VFB in 3dsMax. Load the *.vrimg scene.

Follow this video to see how you can manage your upfront cost upon job submission of still images and analyze your costs with downloadable reports on credit consumption.

This video shows how to:

- Set credit limit per job

- Resume rendering once credit limit is reached by increasing the credit limit

- Track credit reports: download credit report per project or per job.

Follow this simple video tutorial to see how you can optimize your rendering with GPU rendering on Chaos Cloud. We recommend switching your engine type to RTX for even faster results.

1. Set the scene for a high quality render
2. Switch V-Ray GPU engine type to RTX. Use RTX mode instead of CUDA for faster results
3. Submit for rendering in Chaos Cloud. GPU scenes will be rendered with V-Ray GPU RTX.
4. Review the results in Chaos Cloud or review and download from Google Drive
   

Follow this simple video tutorial to see how you can easily clone your V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya, Modo, Cinema 4D or Houdini job for perfect production quality results.

1. Set your scene for a low quality preview render
2. Submit and render a preview with Chaos Cloud
3. You can check your time and cost
4. Review your results directly in Chaos Cloud or review and download using Google Drive
5. To render a production render, clone your existing render job
6. Adjust settings for high quality rendering
7. Submit for rendering
8. Preview your final image on Chaos Cloud or preview and download from Google Drive

Follow this simple video tutorial to see how you can easily clone your V-Ray for SketchUp, Rhino or Revit job for perfect production quality results.

1. Set your scene for a low quality preview render
2. Submit and render a preview with Chaos Cloud
3. You can check your time and cost
4. Review your results directly in Chaos Cloud or review and download using Google Drive
5. To render a production render, clone your existing render job
6. Adjust settings for high quality rendering
7. Submit for rendering
8. Preview your final image on Chaos Cloud or preview and download from Google Drive
   

Follow this simple video tutorial to see how you can use the VR video preview feature in Chaos Cloud. You can easily render and share VR walkthroughs.

1. Prepare your scene for rendering by setting multiple cameras for a walk-through.
2. Choose the VR camera types.
3. Set the resolution and render quality.
4. Enable Animation rendering from Settings.
5. Submit for rendering in Chaos Cloud.
6. Once ready, switch to VR mode to preview the animation. You can navigate through the VR video.
7. Play, pause, forward and rewind the VR video.
8. Optionally, you can generate a shareable link for the video.

Follow this simple video tutorial to see how you can use Chaos Cloud rendering to conveniently render multiple cameras from 3ds Max. Note that this feature is available for V-Ray 5, update 1 and later versions only.

1. Create a scene with V-Ray. Set multiple still or animated cameras.
2. Submit the animation for rendering in Chaos Cloud.
3. An active view is selected by default.
4. Select preferred cameras for rendering or click Alt to select all available cameras. Press the Submit button.
5. Once ready, you can preview the animation from the submitted cameras.
6. You can navigate between different listed cameras.
7. Optionally, you can save your results to Google Drive.

Follow this simple video tutorial to see how you can use Chaos Cloud rendering for multiple cameras support from V-Ray for SketchUp and Rhino.

1. Make sure to use the latest Chaos Cloud client app. You can download it from https://cloud.chaos.com/download-client-app.
2. Create a scene in V-Ray 5. Set multiple camera views.
3. Adjust the settings for production rendering.
4. Submit using the Chaos Cloud Batch Render button. V-Ray automatically iterates through the scenes.
5. When at the Batch Submit screen, select an existing project or create a new one.
6. Enable per job to upload in a pause state (renders after manual start) or enable the global Batch upload only.
7. You can preview each job separately or you can wait until all jobs are uploaded to open the project.
8. Review the state of the jobs. Resume the rest of the jobs when ready.
9. Wait for the jobs to finish rendering.
10. Download all jobs simultaneously can be done in the following way: switch to the project folder when the rendering is finished. Select the jobs for download. Select the Download option and specify a folder.

In the first half of the video tutorial, we show how to render a scene with multiple cameras using the Single layer mode with V-Ray for Maya to Chaos Cloud.

1. Create a scene with V-Ray for Maya. Set up multiple still or animated cameras.
2. Submit your scene to be rendered with Chaos Cloud. In the menu, leave the Single layer mode enabled and select the cameras you want to render.
3. In the Chaos Cloud client app, you can make changes to the camera selection, if needed.
4. Wait for the job to finish rendering.
5. Preview the renders of the submitted cameras in Chaos Cloud.
6. You can then download the result.

Submitting multiple render layers

In the second half of the video tutorial, we show how to render multiple layers using the Multiple layers mode from V-Ray for Maya to Chaos Cloud.

1. Create a scene with V-Ray and set additional render layers in it.
2. Submit your scene to be rendered with Chaos Cloud. In the menu, enable Multiple layers mode and select the layers you want to render.
3. Render in Chaos Cloud.
4. Wait for the jobs to finish rendering.
5. Preview the renders of the submitted layers in Chaos Cloud.
6. You can then download the result.